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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin broke ground on a latest rocket facility site in Florida lately, following the successful launch and landing of its reusable rocket for the fourth time. The founder of the company gave a sneak peek of the facility, which is going to include 750,000 square feet of land.

Bezos said that the rocket factory is going to be sufficiently huge to carry out manufacturing, processing, integration and testing of orbital rockets. He added that automated composite processing equipment and large-scale friction stir welding equipment will also be managed in the site.

A novel study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has unveiled new findings about Ceres. Before this research, Ceres was considered to be an ice-rich space rock and could be a mix of rock, ice, salts and other minerals. Also, bright spots on the large Occator impact crater have different salts owing to which they are quite reflective, unveils a different research paper.

It is reported that the Sun has lost its sunspots second time this month leaving it totally blank. This event is indicating that perhaps we are moving toward a mini ice age that could be like one we had between 1645 and 1715, when there was prolonged sunspot minimum.

The NASA robots presently conducting research and experiments at the Red Planet and rolling around its surface will soon get company as many companies are working on space projects. Numerous distinct public and private organizations ranging from the US space agency NASA, to the European Space Agency (ESA), to Elon Musk's dedicated company SpaceX, have been looking forward to launch missions to Mars in the coming times.

In a recent email, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos made an announcement that the company has broken ground on their Florida’s orbital vehicle manufacturing site. The latest custom-built facility is around 750,000 square feet, and has been planned to be sufficiently bigger to offer accommodation for different proceedings like manufacturing, processing, integration, and testing of orbital rockets.

To give an idea about its size, the rocket facility of SpaceX in Hawthorne, California is roughly one million square feet.

American space agency NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a spectacular fireworks show in a small, nearby galaxy, which resembles a July 4th skyrocket, thus making it known that such shows are not just confined to Earth's skies.

The galaxy, Kiso 5639, is shaped like a flattened pancake resembling a skyrocket due to its tilted edge-on property. It has a brilliant blazing head and a long, star-studded tail with a firestorm of star birth lighting up one end of the diminutive.

Lately, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded firework display in a small, nearby galaxy known as Kiso 5639. The dwarf galaxy resembles a July4th skyrocket, as it is shaped like a flattened pancake and is tilted edge-on.

Kiso 5639 is a rare galaxy because it is a tadpole galaxy and they are quite rare in the universe and rarer in the local universe. There are just 20 tadpole galaxies in the local areas closest to earth. The images provide an idea that many of the stars in the galaxy continue to form as it moves through gasless desert in the universe.